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Network File System (NFS) is a network file system protocol originally developed by Sun Micro systems in 1984, allowing a user on a client computer to access files over a network in a manner similar to how local storage is accessed. NFS, like many other protocols, builds on the Open Network ...

I have set up shares on an NFS server. I can mount the shares with no error. The share sizes reported by "df" are much smaller than the share size on the server eg. server reports 1 TB but the share ...

We have an Isilon cluster with 8 IQ 12000x nodes which exports storage via several NFS shares for a handful of Linux and Solaris clients.
There is a Linux system that has one of these NFS filesystems ...

I have a NFS server running Linux and exporting a couple of shares. Both Linux and MacOS clients connect to the server, and while with the Linux clients I get ~ 75MB/s write speed, the MacOS clients ...

In a bourne shell script (#!/bin/sh) how can check to see if a remote NFS share is mounted and, if it is not, mount it? I've got an ugly set of cat, greps and ifs using the output of 'mount' at the ...

I have a couple of servers on which the UIDs and GIDs are different for the same user names and group names. When I NFS mount a directory ostensibly owned by the same user from one server to another, ...

I have an NFSv3 server and around 15 clients. I am looking for pros and cons enabling async on the server side. I have read about it, but it is still a bit unclear to me. I know it can lead to data ...

I have two systems and I need to setup a folder on one of them that is completely read/write-able by the other.
Questions:
1) How do I setup NFS on the server(s)? It is not installed as an available ...

I am running Debian, and need to setup an NFS server. My server has five identical 2TB disks. I will need to setup folder quotas. I am planning to use software raid by putting 3 of the five disks into ...

I am interested in the impact of the read disk cache on accessing a file through NFS. Lets say I have a file on NFS. I access it (do "cat myfile") from a linux host "A". If there's enough RAM a file ...

I changed the user id of a user on an NFS client that mounts a volume from another server. My goal is to get the 2 users to have the same id, so that both servers can read and write to the volume.
I ...

I am unable to start the NFS service. When starting there is no error. But the services are stopt after it. No messages at all in /var/log/messages. Same happens to rpcbind serivce. Any idea what this ...

On Linux we authenticate users against AD. The AD users are not listed on /etc/passwd.
We are about to deploy a NFS solution to mount some extra space for each group of users.
If a user(A) with sudo ...

We have three VMware ESXi 4 hosts serving VM's from an OpenFiler NFS share.
Every host has a direct gigabit connection to the NAS. Although read performance has been great, writing files inside the VM ...

I built a web application that runs on a virtual server for one of my customers. It includes the facility for them to upload files, but they now want to store those files on a server in their office.
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Is it possible to create a fault tolerant, redundant NFS server (e.g. master/slave)?
Several of my web servers mount their WEBroot directories from a single NFS server (which is regularly backed up). ...

I had a problem yesterday with a server that lost connection (S1). From that server, there was a dir shared with NFS to another one (S2), no homedir and not in $PATH, but a dir to store old files for ...

I have a machine (with mythtv installed) which automatically login a user, whose home directory is located on a server accessed by NFS4. In about 6 of 10 times it works like a charm, but sometimes the ...

If a Windows server has a drive mapped to a share on the same server, will it still use NFS to read/write or does it know that the drive is actually local? Would I/O performance be improved by using a ...